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Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by reledi »

smsm42 wrote: post #158
alan_cx wrote: post #39

There seems to be some confusion between a resume and a portfolio. While this is clever, unfortunately what it does is make the job of getting the candidate's details harder. Say I have a pile of resumes and what not on my desk, and this. I want to compare them. Easy with the pile of 2 page resumes and attached portfolios, but with this I have to muck on a computer, trying to make out various bits and bobs, then even…

Resumes are mostly useless. First of all, people lie on resumes. All the time. Second of all, even assuming everything is 100% true, what does it means he knows CSS? I can learn some selectors and properties but be unable to apply them to create a visually appealing page, or I can remember nothing but be able to create stunning sites while constantly looking up technical details (just to remove the doubt, real people…

> The best candidate I have ever interviewed [...] came to the interview with examples of his code and explained what his code does and why he did it this way. Everybody loved that. Unfortunately, almost nobody does it.

Almost nobody does it because it's not expected. Why not ask future applicants to bring in some code samples and walk through it?

Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

peterjmag wrote: post #60
alan_cx wrote: post #39

There seems to be some confusion between a resume and a portfolio. While this is clever, unfortunately what it does is make the job of getting the candidate's details harder. Say I have a pile of resumes and what not on my desk, and this. I want to compare them. Easy with the pile of 2 page resumes and attached portfolios, but with this I have to muck on a computer, trying to make out various bits and bobs, then even…

If he's looking for an animation- or illustration-heavy position, I think this is perfect. I'm sure it'll catch the eye of at least a few creative directors out there, at which point the standard HR process becomes a bit moot. I mean, he can always send a plain old PDF resume if he finds himself applying online for some random position, but I doubt he'll need to. Anyway, I really like it. No, it's not perfect—he lose…

Dreamweaver is probably used in corporate web design settings quite a lot being a part of the Adobe toolset and all. Perhaps he's pandering to his market?

What tweaked the nose of my bete-noir was the entry of HTML and CSS under "Scripting and Programming languages" - but I think it's fair to say he knows what he's doing, seriously impressive design work going on there.

Re: Interactive Resume

#163

Post by chris24 »

oftenwrong wrote: post #133
teh_klev wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>"Send email requesting a 2 page resume" It's an extra step in the process for the hiring bod, the resume should come before this. Also first time load on IE, Chrome and Firefox did this: http://i.imgur.com/Wn62Rh4.png At first I thought this was some cryptic "why the lucky stiff" malarky. Only after hitting refresh did the site load properly, I almost closed the tab, he might not be so lucky with someone who is a li…

>And finally what happens if the site goes down or gets slashdot/hn/reddited? It would be great to have that many eyes on my resume.

This actually happened. The site's unavailable now.

Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by chrisc202 »

How much would it cost to hire someone to do this?

Non-technical guy. I would love to try this out. It is attention grabbing. I have used bobble heads, cakes with my sales proposals to get into the door. Corny, but stuff like this works. I sent Robbie a message. If anyone else knows how to do this or something similar please message me.

Re: Interactive Resume

#165

Post by smsm42 »

reledi wrote: post #161
smsm42 wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Resumes are mostly useless. First of all, people lie on resumes. All the time. Second of all, even assuming everything is 100% true, what does it means he knows CSS? I can learn some selectors and properties but be unable to apply them to create a visually appealing page, or I can remember nothing but be able to create stunning sites while constantly looking up technical details (just to remove the doubt, real people…

> The best candidate I have ever interviewed [...] came to the interview with examples of his code and explained what his code does and why he did it this way. Everybody loved that. Unfortunately, almost nobody does it. Almost nobody does it because it's not expected. Why not ask future applicants to bring in some code samples and walk through it?

Well, unfortunately that's not how the interview process is set up (and I personally have many other things to do other than to tilt at this particular windmill). However, post-factum, it seems very natural thing to do - I might probably do it if/when I ever interview for a position where it is relevant (though I might just bring a tablet in and show some code in opensource repose). I don't see why it's not expected - I haven't seen anyone who would find it inappropriate. It's not always possible - some people just don't have code suitable for presenting or sufficiently non-IP-encumbered to present - but if you're lucky to be able to do it, why not?

Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by gokulk »

ultimatedelman wrote: post #145
jhspaybar wrote: post #53

Wow. Hit this on mobile. I'm not sure what it looks like on desktop, but on mobile it's amazing. Swipe to move, everything perfectly in place. I too often roll my eyes when someone ranks themselves a "master", but whoa...I actually believe this guy.

took a look on mobile chrome. pretty awful experience, tbh. looks pretty, but i was expecting a swipe to take you to the next step automatically. unfortunately once you get to movement, each swipe is like one tick on the scroll wheel... i couldn't get past the first gate after like 20 swipes, got fed up, and left.

iphone 5 & iOS safari... most amazing thing I have seen on a web browser. the experience was seamless and it actually felt like you were playing a video game.

Re: Interactive Resume

#170

Post by avalaunch »

This is some pretty horrible advertising for StartLogic.

I assume the site was taken down because of the traffic spike. Apparently Totally Reliable Web Hosting and Unlimited Bandwidth can only go so far.

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